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A Lucas Luxury Custom Home With Every Amenity

By Karen Eubank | September 27, 2025 |

Every day, I hear about someone moving to Lucas, Texas. I’m not at all surprised that people have finally figured out this is one of the best places to live in the state. It’s only 30 miles from Dallas, next to all the amenities of Lavon Lake, and is served by the superb Lovejoy ISD.…

This Home in Celina Is Move-Up Worthy and Move-In Ready

By CandysDirt | September 27, 2025 |

If you’ve been keeping an eye on the Dallas-area housing market, you’ve no doubt heard of Celina. This charming North Texas suburb has become one of the hottest spots to buy thanks to its small-town feel, highly rated schools, and ever-expanding dining and shopping scene. It’s the kind of place where neighbors still wave, Friday…

A Timeless Midcentury Modern in Hillcrest Forest

By Karen Eubank | September 27, 2025 |

If there is one architectural style that Dallas loves, it’s Midcentury Modern. It’s captivated us for decades because it resonates on multiple levels — and this timeless home is an excellent example of why we love the style. Out of the many reasons these homes are so hot is that one-story living is in high…

Fall Is Here, And There’s Plenty of Home Maintenance To Do, No Matter the Temperature

By Brenda Masse | September 27, 2025 |

It’s officially fall in North Texas, and if you’re like me, your Halloween decorations have been up since Labor Day and pumpkin-everything has long since been broken out. It’s a particularly exciting year because the first weekend of fall will see highs in the 80s. I may just bust out a sweater! Anywho, the changing…

Kessler Park or Hollywood Hills? Enjoy Treetops and Terraces in This Refined Ranch-Style Home

By Shelby Skrhak | September 26, 2025 |

To know this sprawling white farmhouse-style ranch at 1419 Yakimo Dr. is to know the unique East Kessler Park neighborhood it sits in.  The Guggenheim Acres enclave is an ultra-hilly, wooded landscape of eclectic homes that have been purpose-built since its founding in 1937. What does that mean — “purpose-built”? Here, homes were developed organically…

High Home Prices Appear To Be Doing a Number on America’s Birth Rate

By Charles Grand | September 26, 2025 |

A lot of noise has been made about the housing affordability crisis in the United States. From a real estate perspective, many of the dynamics involved are obviously economic in nature. However, there’s also a very serious existential factor at play: the nation’s birth rate. There appears to be a pretty clear relationship between single-family…